pregage

To preengage.

by oath pregaged to the pope

Ninthly, that the members of that Council of Trent, both Bishops and Abbots, were by Oath pregaged to the Pope, "to defend and maintain his authority against all the world."

To gauge beforehand; to make an initial estimate of size, magnitude or position.

At the outset, however, he either failed utterly to pregage the possibilities of the method, or else through modesty declined to let his imagination take wings; for we find him, in an interview published in McClure's Magazine in 1897, when a considerable measure of success had been attained, declaring that it would be possible by the perfection of his method to send signals to a distance of at least twenty miles.

As in most rail renewal operations, a plate setting device is used to pregage the tie plates for the DUN-RITE GAGING MACHINE.

Before gauging.

removes parts one at a time from the bottom of the loading tray and cycles them to a probe station for a pregage check to ensure that they are within the required size.

When a gaging machine is used, the pregage setting is 1/8 to 1/4 in. tighter than the desired gage.